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Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 21 September 2022; Last Updated: 22 September 2022

The WOP-The Walk On Project Foundation and Mendi Film Festival Elkartea are awarding the WOP Mendi Film 2022 Foundation Award to Dr Eduardo Martínez de Pisón, geographer, writer and mountaineer from Valladolid. The award will be presented during the 15th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia, in December 2022 (from the 9th to the 18th).

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 15 September 2022; Last Updated: 16 September 2022

The sale of ticket packs for the 15th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia is on, with a first phase open from September 16 to October 16.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 14 September 2022; Last Updated: 14 September 2022

It has been 15 years since the creation of Mendi Mountain Film Festival in 2008. 15 years, and that is many editions without a break, with the one to be held from the 9^th to the 18^th of December 2022. The list of films in competition will be published in October, and from then on, the guests, directors, producers and athletes who will take part in December will be announced.

Details: Category: Press Festival; 01 August 2022; Last Updated: 29 July 2022

These are the five members that will make up the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia Jury in the 2022 edition: Lisa Stolze, Laura Zumiani, Iratxe Fresneda, Josué Vergara and Albert Pascual.

Lisa Stolze (Austria), marketing expert and former key player in the production company Red Bull Media House..
Laura Zumiani (Italy), programmer of the Trento Film Festival and member of the board of the Italian association of film festivals.
Iratxe Fresneda (Basque Country-Spain), filmmaker, screenwriter and audiovisual teacher at UPV-EHU.
Josué Vergara (Valence-Spain), musician and soundtrack composer, who has collaborated with filmmaker Seb Montaz, among others.
Albert Pascual (Catalonia-Spain), filmmaker and director of photography, among others in the film 'La Cima', and professor at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuales de Catalunya.

The five will be responsible for viewing and assessing the films in the Official Section of the 15th edition of the Mendi Film, and consequently for choosing this year's winners.

The film submission period is open

The registration period for film entries for the 15th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia is open until September 15th. Many interesting films have already been registered since the opening was announced in April, both through the festival's own platform and through the multi-submission form of the IAMF-International Alliance for Mountain Film.

Once the deadline for entries has passed in September, the films will be selected, and the final list will be published in October. We forsee that the Jury will have an arduous but attractive job to do. From the 9th to the 18th of December, BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia will once again be a meeting point where the best mountain films can be seen and enjoyed.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 16 May 2022; Last Updated: 16 May 2022

"Ski is Life" is the main image of the 15th edition of the Mendi Film, the winning photograph of the Poster BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia award at the CVCEPHOTO contest.

A spectacular ski photograph taken in Zauchensee, Austria, by the Slovenian photographer Sandi Bertoncelj that has earned him the honor of repeating as an image of our festival as he also did in 2020 -with "Into the Light"-.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 02 May 2022; Last Updated: 02 May 2022

The 28 members of the International Alliance for Mountain Film-IAMF have once again held a face-to-face assembly within the framework of the 70th Trento Film Festival. Celebrate, yes, in a special way because it has meant the long-awaited reunion after the forced pandemic parenthesis of festival members from all over the world. The 26 mountain film festivals that represent it together with the Museo della Montagna in Turin and the Mountain Film Archive, have strengthened their alliance in the face of the motivating challenges and projects they face.

Jabier Baraiazarra, director of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia, is the current President of the IAMF.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 01 April 2022; Last Updated: 01 April 2022

RULES and FILM SUBMISSION

Film submissions are open for the 15th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival.

It will take place from 9th to 18th December 2022.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 24 March 2022; Last Updated: 25 March 2022

BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia and lots of MendiZales -Mendi fans-, have participated today, Thursday, March 24, in the preview of the film 'La Cima', in collaboration once again with the Golem Cinemas, which have equipped double BC in Pamplona-Golem Baiona and Bilbao-Golem Alhondiga. Great atmosphere!

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 13 March 2022; Last Updated: 13 March 2022

The International Alliance for Mountain Film expresses its solidarity with the Ukrainian population and in particular with all those who make up the Mountain Culture community in Ukraine, while strongly condemning Russia's military aggression against the Ukrainian people and its national sovereignty.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 15 February 2022; Last Updated: 15 February 2022

The International Alliance for Mountain Film is proud to announce that its 2022 Grand Prize has been awarded to Australian director Michael Dillon.

Instituted in 2000, throughout its trajectory the International Alliance for Mountain Film, which includes the most prestigious organisations in the sector among its members, has become the main reference point for those who produce, promote and conserve mountain films. Today we are 28 members: 26 festivals of mountain film, one mountain museum and one mountain film archive, which represent 20 countries from Europe, Asia, North and South America and Oceania.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 30 December 2021; Last Updated: 30 December 2021

2021 has been a sharp and dizzying route, as well as a beautiful one.
Let’s let our spirits run free in 2022.
The Mountain and Culture unite and activate us.
Let's go for new challenges! Action!

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 14 December 2021; Last Updated: 14 December 2021

The 14th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia, held from December 3rd to the 12th, has reached it’s with an overall attendance of 7,541 people. The festival screened a total of 52 films from 13 countries. There were 11 international premieres and 22 national premieres, 11 panel talks and 7 exhibitions.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 11 December 2021; Last Updated: 11 December 2021

'Sciana Ceni (The Wall of Shadows)' the film directed by Polish filmmaker Eliza Kubarska takes the viewer to the Jannu or Kumbhakarna (Himalaya, 7710m) against the backdrop of an epic activity carried out by Russian mountaineers Dmitry Golovchenko and Sergey Nilov in spring 2019. But in the film, the real protagonist is the Sherpa family who work for the expedition: their concerns and fears about the sacred mountain, the conditioning weight of the salary for the services rendered, the parental yearning to be able to offer studies to their son, and the tense situation generated the situation of the climbers who are tragically delayed in their challenge.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 06 December 2021; Last Updated: 06 December 2021

The adventurer Sebastián Álvaro was distinguished with the WOP-The Walk On Project 2021 Award from the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 05 December 2021; Last Updated: 05 December 2021

Emotion, recognition, tribute, and closed obation with the public standing in the Euskalduna Auditorium. The memorable premiere of the film Mendiak 1976 takes place within the framework of the Opening Ceremony of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival will endure in the memory of all those who lived the magic and energy of the moment. Brilliant start of the festival.

Second screaning of Mendiak 1976, on Thursday, December 9, at the Golem cinemas, 17:30pm.

Details: Category: Noticias 2021; 26 November 2021; Last Updated: 26 November 2021

Bilbao, November 26, 2021. The Sala Ondare Aretoa of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia is hosting the ROCK THE MOUNTAIN exhibition within the framework of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival. After being presented today, it will remain open until February 12, 2022.

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